- ♪ She's a dancing star
♪ She loves to twirl all day
♪ She's gonna go far
♪ That's the angelina way
♪ Follow your dreams
Wherever they take you ♪
♪ You can succeed
♪ Don't let anything
Shake you ♪
♪ Angelina
♪ Ballerina
♪ The little star
With big dreams ♪
♪ Angelina
♪ Ballerina
♪ La, la, la-la
♪ La, la, la-la
♪ La, la, la-la
[School bell rings]
- I'm angelina ballerina,
And today
I'm learning tap dancing,
But I'm thinking about lunch.
[Upbeat music]
[Bell rings]
[Music stops]
- And we'll finish this lesson
After we take our break.
- I want to sit
Next to ms. Mimi.
- I want to sit wherever there's
A plate full of cheese.
[Both giggling]
- I'm so hungry,
I'm not even going to take
My tap shoes off.
- Me neither.
Let's go.
[Pleasant orchestral music]
♪
[Tapping]
- Hello?
[Tapping]
Ah...ah...
[Tapping]
[Tapping]
Gulp!
Hello?
[Tapping]
Hello?
Is anybody here?
[Tapping]
[Intense tapping]
Eek!
[All gasp]
Double eek!
- Gracie, what's wrong?
- Are you all right?
- [Breathing heavily]
There--there is a gh-ghost
In the roquefort theater.
[Both gasp]
- Why do you think it's a ghost?
- Because the ghost went
"Tap, tap, tap,"
Like in the book
Ms. Mimi read to us.
[All gasp]
- Oh, I remember that book.
- And then there was
No sound except...
[All gasping]
A knock at the door.
[Taps]
[All scream]
[Chuckles]
Don't worry.
It's just a story.
- I wasn't afraid.
Ghost stories don't scare me.
- But sometimes
These stories can be true.
What if there is a ghost
In roquefort hall?
- Oh, I wouldn't like that.
- Me neither.
- What about you, a.z.?
You're really, truly brave.
You aren't afraid, are you?
- Who, me?
Afraid?
[Chuckles]
I'm from new cheese city.
I'm never afraid.
Don't worry, girls.
A.z., Ghost-catching mouse,
Is in the house.
- Oh, no.
We can't be ghost catchers.
It's too scary.
- All right,
If you're so afraid,
We can tell ms. Mimi about it
Over lunch.
[Stomach rumbles]
- Or...
We could introduce ourselves
And try to be
This ghost's friend.
- Be the ghost's friend?
Oh, no, no, no.
There is no way I will
Make friends with the ghost.
I'm afraid.
- Me too.
- Me too, but a.z. Isn't.
He can lead the way.
- Mm-mm...
[Gulps]
Yeah, um,
That's right.
I said I wasn't afraid,
And so...i'm not.
I'll just go right in there,
Shake that ghost's hand,
And say, "hello, ghost."
Yeah, that's what I'll do.
[Inhales]
[Quietly]
Ready or not, here we come.
[All sigh]
Okay, so far, so good.
Who's with me?
[Together] we are!
[Mysterious music]
♪
- Say something brave.
- Yo, ghost!
A.z. Here.
♪
- Hello, mr. Ghost.
Are you there?
[Whispers]
You try.
- Uh...
Hi, there, mr. Ghost.
Nice weather we're having,
Isn't it?
- I think the ghost is gone.
Time for lunch.
- Maybe gracie should try too.
Gracie, where are you?
- Gracie.
- Gracie.
- C'est moi.
It's me.
[All sigh]
I don't want to talk
To this ghost.
- If we meet him,
Maybe he won't seem so scary.
- Oh...
Hello, ghost?
[Tapping]
[All gasp and shriek]
- Well, vici was wrong.
We met this ghost,
And he is scary.
[Rapid tapping]
[Syncopated tapping]
- Huh?
Wait a minute.
This ghost has rhythm.
[Together] what?
- That ghost went
"Tappity tap tap"
Like this.
[Clapping rhythmically]
♪
- Wait, aren't you afraid
Of the ghost?
- [Clapping rhythmically]
♪
Nothing with rhythm this good
Could ever be scary.
[Rapid tapping]
This ghost is the best.
[Clapping rhythmically]
♪
He's got awesome rhythm,
Just like me.
Hip-hop is all about doing
What the other guy can do
And then doing something more.
- Tap dancers do that too.
Watch this.
Here's what the ghost
Sounded like.
[Clacking]
And then a.z. Added a rhythm
That sounded like this.
[Clapping rhythmically]
And this is all me.
[Clacking]
- [Clapping]
[Applause]
- It's my turn to dance
With the ghost.
Everybody knows
I am the best tap dancer.
[Rhythmic tapping]
[Cheery instrumental music]
♪
Voila.
- Well, don't forget that
You're dancing with a ghost,
And aren't you
Afraid of ghosts?
- Not anymore.
Now that I've met this ghost,
He is mon ami, my friend.
[Tapping]
My good friend.
- He's my friend too,
And I bet you can't do this.
♪
- I bet I can.
♪
- No one can do it like this.
♪
- What about this?
♪
[Tapping]
- Later, ghost.
- Oh!
- We're coming.
Maybe we were right all along
About ghosts being scary,
Because this one sure scared us.
- Ms. Mimi!
[Together] ms. Mimi!
- Ms. Mimi!
- Ms. Mimi!
- Ms. Mimi!
- Ms. Mimi!
- Huh?
[Together] ms. Mimi!
- What's wrong?
- There's a ghost!
- There's a ghost
In roquefort hall.
- And it's dancing.
- One at a time, please.
- There is a ghost
In roquefort hall,
And he goes...
- Tap tap tap tappity-tap.
- He's really good.
He's got rhythm.
- And so we danced with him.
- Like this:
Tap tap tap tappity-tap.
- And we all wanted to be
Better than everyone else,
And now the ghost is...
- Totally mad.
- A.z.'S right.
- A ghost?
Are you sure?
- Oui.
- Definitely.
- It was a ghost.
- And you're sure this "ghost"
Was mad?
Because when dancers
Try to one-up each other,
It's a great thing.
It's a way for your friends
To challenge you to be better.
- So the ghost was just being
A good friend.
- I knew that.
I knew he wasn't scary.
Yeah, uh, I did.
The only reason
I ran away so fast
Was because I wanted
To tell ms. Mimi and...
Okay, I was a little afraid
Of the ghost.
[Laughter]
- If there is a ghost...
[Rhythmic tapping]
Listen.
[Rhythmic tapping]
All: huh!
- Hey.
The ghost is in the yard.
- Yes, and so is
A family of woodpeckers.
They are making their home
Up in the roof
Of camembert academy.
[Tapping]
[Laughter]
I would imagine their tapping
Would sound very loud
Inside roquefort theater.
- Gracie, where are you going?
- I think we should
Introduce ourselves
And become friends.
- You are so right.
- Hello!
Woodpeckers!
[Tapping]
[Tapping]
[All tapping rhythmically]
- It doesn't matter
That our new friend
Turned out to be a woodpecker
Instead of a ghost.
What really counts is,
He's a good friend
And he's got rhythm.
Now it's time to meet
Camembert's shining stars.
- My name is leanne.
- I'm kayla.
- I'm hector.
- The name of our group is
The keltic dreams irish dancers.
We're from the school p.s.
In the bronx.
♪
You don't have to be irish
To do irish step dancing.
Our teacher, caroline duggan,
Is irish, but none of us are.
We're all
From different countries,
And we all do it together.
♪
- The part
When we do the competition,
It's not really,
Like, a competition,
But we just make the dance
Feel fun for us.
[Shoes clacking]
- Making the sound
With irish dancing hard shoes
Is one
Of the most important things.
When we stamp, it's, like,
It makes so much noise
That we make the floor shake.
♪
- I always practice at school
And at home,
And we lived in a house,
So then people downstairs,
They said, "knock it off,"
Because I was, like, too loud,
So I had to practice outside.
♪
- In our school,
When we do shows for them
And then when we go
Back to our classes,
They always ask,
"Can you teach us that?
Can you teach us this?"
So it's like
People want to be like us.
♪
- What I like
About irish dancing
Is that we have fun.
We go to new places.
- We've been to city hall,
To ireland twice,
And chicago and washington.
And in ireland,
We performed for the president,
Mary mcaleese.
♪
- I love irish dancing.
It's so fun.
It's like a dream come true
To me.
- I'm angelina ballerina,
And here I am
At one of my favorite spots,
The lunch table.
Every day at lunch,
My friends and I
Talk about the dance steps
We've learned,
And then we talk about the fun
We're going to have
In the afternoon.
This isn't just a lunch table.
It's a friends table.
- Guess who.
- Alice!
[Both giggling]
- You won't believe
What I found.
- [Gasps]
Wow.
Our "best friend forever" wand.
- I thought it was lost,
But I found it
In the back of my closet.
- Remember when we waved
The magic wand
And we were the fastest
Running jumpers ever?
- And when we were
Prima ballerinas?
Let's have a sleepover
This saturday
And use the friendship wand
Some more.
- Oh, yes.
[Gasps]
Oh.
Oh, no.
I can't come over on saturday.
I promised vici--
- Angelina,
I've got your ticket.
The tap dance concert
Is all sold out,
But my mom got the last two
Tickets for me and you.
- [Gasps]
- Hmm.
- Oh, I love tap dancing.
♪
- I'm so lucky
I could invite a friend.
- Oh.
- Oh, you'll have
So much fun.
- Uh...
- Come on!
It's the first day
Of camembert junior chorus.
- Oh.
Thanks for reminding us,
Marco.
Wow.
We all get to sing together.
- Angelina,
I've been waiting for you.
You wanted to see
My fashion drawings, right?
- Oh, yeah, I forgot.
Angelina, we're poem partners,
And I found the perfect poem.
- I thought
We could be partners.
- I wanted to be
Your partner, angelina.
- Oh, sorry,
But marco asked me first.
- Angelina,
Come look at my drawings.
- Whew.
Everyone wants to talk to me
At once.
I feel dizzy.
Sorry.
I'm coming, gracie.
- Hello, class.
Ready for your first day
Of camembert junior chorus?
All: yeah!
- I'll look at your drawings
At lunch, okay?
- Okay, everybody,
Is this a good position
For singing?
All: huh?
[Piano intro]
- ♪ La, la, la, la, la
All: ♪ la, la, la, la, la
- Oh!
[Laughter]
- This is hard.
- [Chuckles]
You're not kidding.
- Try this.
♪ La, la, la, la, la
All: ♪ la, la, la, la, la
- That sounds better.
- Because we're standing up
Straight.
- Exactly.
Let's stand up tall,
Side by side,
And get ready
To sing our song.
- Whoops.
Sorry.
- Hmm.
[Plays note]
[All singing
At different tempos]
- [Laughs]
- Hey, we're all singing
At different times.
- Is that what a chorus does?
All: no.
- Everyone sings together.
- Absolutely.
All: ooh.
- That looks like
Our friendship wand.
- It's called a baton.
Now, singers, watch me,
And when I point to you,
Sing.
Both: ♪ someone sure to be
♪ The someone next to me
All: ♪ you're that someone
Once again ♪
♪ And that makes you
My friend ♪
- [Sustaining]
♪ Friend
[Giggles]
- So if a chorus
Starts together,
Should a chorus
End together too?
All: yes.
- Let's try the last line again.
All: ♪ you're that someone
Once again ♪
♪ And that makes you
My friend ♪
- Better.
Now, everybody choose a partner
To sing a note with.
- Be my partner.
- Sing with me, angelina.
- Sing with me, angelina.
- Over here.
- Who should I choose?
Hmm?
- Be my partner.
- Sing with me, angelina.
- Come on, angelina.
- Over here.
- [Gasps]
I have an idea.
I can be partners
With everyone.
- ♪ Someone sure to be
♪ The someone next to me
Both: ♪ you're that someone
Once again ♪
♪ And that makes you
My friend ♪
- ♪ Someone tried and true
♪ In old times and the new
Both: ♪ you're that someone
Once again ♪
♪ And that makes you
My friend ♪
- ♪ Someone with a heart
♪ Who's helpful from the start
Both: ♪ you're that someone
Once again ♪
♪ And that makes you
My friend ♪
- ♪ Someone really kind
♪ Who's never hard to find
Both: ♪ you're that someone
Once again ♪
♪ And that makes you
My friend ♪
- Everyone join in.
[Bell rings]
Oh.
We'll work on more tomorrow.
- [Sighs]
At least I don't have to choose
Between friends here.
- Let's practice our poem
Together.
- Let's practice tap dancing.
- Ah, angelina,
You said you would look
At my fashion drawings.
- The lunch table
Is kind of crowded today.
- Oh, we can share the seat,
Angelina.
. Oh!
[Laughter]
- Let us try back-to-back.
Oh!
- [Giggling]
This is just like
Musical chairs.
- That's it.
Let's play musical chairs.
- We can use the friendship wand
Like a baton.
- I'll be the conductor.
- We all have to watch angelina.
- Yeah.
- ♪ Someone sure to be
♪ The someone next to me
♪ You're that someone
Once again ♪
- I got one.
- I'm sitting.
- I've got one too.
- Ooh.
I still do not have
A place to sit.
Can we play the game
One more time?
- Yeah, that was fun.
♪ Someone sure to be
- Got one.
- Got one.
- Got one again.
- What? What?
Ohh!
That was not fun.
- Gracie, where are you going?
- Hey, angelina, you promised
We'd practice our poem.
- Uh...
- And what about our tap steps?
- Well, um...
- Let's use the friendship wand
Again, angelina.
[Bell rings]
- We missed our chance
To dance.
- And we can't
Do our poem now.
- No more wand today.
- And I do not like
This lunch game.
- Oh, no.
Now all my friends
Are mad at me.
[Sighs]
- How was school today,
Angelina?
- It was fun,
And then
It wasn't so much fun.
- Oh.
- [Sighs]
Do you think someone can have
Too many friends?
- No, not if they're
True friends.
- But what if all your friends
Are cross with you?
What am I going to do?
Lunchtime!
Oh.
Where are all my friends?
Hello?
[Children giggling]
Alice!
Vici!
Marco!
Gracie!
It's me, your friend
Angelina!
I have a table
All ready for lunch.
All: we don't have a friend
Named angelina.
- [Gasps]
All: we don't have a friend
Named angelina.
- Angelina?
Angelina?
- [Gasps]
Oh, no.
Oh, I was having a bad dream.
- I made something for you,
Angelina.
See? It means "friends."
Mum helped me make it
Because I'm your friend too,
And I'm your sister.
- Oh, polly.
Thank you.
You've given me a great idea.
What an idea I had.
I realized
That you don't need to be
With just one friend
At a time.
The lunch table could be
For lots of friends
Doing lots of things together.
Gracie, how about if you put
Your fashion drawings
On the table?
- But why?
- Alice, where's
The "friendship forever" wand?
- Here.
- Hey, look.
- Gracie, can we all look
At your fashion drawings?
- I guess so.
- Wow.
These are great.
- Fantastic.
- Oh, beautiful.
- [Giggles]
Merci.
Thanks.
- And, vici, let's show everyone
Our tap dance.
- Oh, yes.
We can join in.
- Uh-huh.
Five, six, seven, eight.
♪
- It's shuffle and then
Shuffle hop step and...
[All giggling]
- All right, class.
Let's remember what we learned
Yesterday about a chorus.
. I know.
It's best when everyone
Sings together.
All: yeah.
- Oh, yes.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- [Laughs]
All: ♪ someone sure to be
♪ The someone next to me
♪ You're that someone
Once again ♪
♪ And that makes you
My friend ♪
♪ Someone tried and true
♪ In old times and the new
♪ You're that someone
Once again ♪
♪ And that makes you
My friend ♪
♪ Someone with a heart
♪ Who's helpful from the start
♪ You're that someone
Once again ♪
♪ And that makes you
My friend ♪
♪ Someone really kind
♪ Who's never hard to find
♪ You're that someone
Once again ♪
♪ And that makes you
My friend ♪
- It's like being
With lots of friends.
It's the best fun ever.
Hello,
I'm angelina ballerina,
And today
I'm watching my friends
Perform an irish step dance.
Do you see how their feet
And legs move quickly
But the top part of their bodies
Hardly move at all?
They're wearing hard shoes
That are like tap shoes,
Which make a sound
Every time they hit the floor.
Tap actually began
With irish step dance.
It's stupendous to watch
And even more fun to try.
- Hola, marco here.
I know what that is.
It's a marimba.
Marimbas were first made
In africa and latin america.
They hit the wood blocks
With the mallets,
And those tubes underneath
Help make that cool sound.
Marimba
Is a percussion instrument.
A drum is another kind
Of percussion instrument,
Like the one I have here.
You hit it.
That's how it makes sound.
Magnifico.
I wonder if they'd let me play
My steel drum with them.
We'd make a great trio.
04x07 - Angelina and Roquefort's Rhythmic Ghost / Angelina's Lunch Table
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British childrens series about Angelina Mouseling, a young mouse who loves dancing ballet, her family, and her classmates.
British childrens series about Angelina Mouseling, a young mouse who loves dancing ballet, her family, and her classmates.